Henry Baltazar is a Research Director for the storage practice at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. Henry returned to 451 Research after spending nearly three years at Forrester Research as a senior analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals and advising Forrester clients on datacenter infrastructure technologies. Henry has evaluated and tested storage hardware and software offerings for more than 15 years as an industry analyst and as a journalist.
Prior to 451 Research and Forrester, Henry spent nearly nine years working as a technical analyst for eWeek Labs, where he covered storage, server hardware and network operating systems. At eWeek Labs, he initiated the testing coverage of various technologies, including data replication, clustering, virtual tape libraries, storage virtualization, SAN management, NAS, iSCSI and email archiving. In addition, Henry was a member of eWeek's editorial board and provided content for the magazine's enterprise storage blog. Henry has been widely quoted in the press, including such media outlets as Silicon Valley Business Journal, Computerworld and SearchStorage.com.
Henry holds a BA in environmental sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.
VMware has played a large role in disrupting the infrastructure space with hyperconverged infrastructure, and in response to the rise of storage-intensive applications, the vendor has launched the vSAN Max disaggregated storage platform to create distinct compute and storage clusters.
The vendor recently unveiled several new offerings and enhancements across its broad cloud storage and data protection portfolio, including a new air-gapped vault to protect backups from malware attacks. In emerging markets such as AI/ML, AWS is aggressively positioning its cloud as the ideal venue for building scalable data lakes.
The Kubernetes-native object storage player is looking to take advantage of current market trends amplifying the importance of emerging data-heavy cloud-native and AI workloads. With cloud repatriation efforts on the rise, MinIO's object storage platform is a potential landing spot for organizations looking reel data back to an on-premises or colocated datacenter.
Data migration remains a challenging process for organizations, and it will only become more critical as they seek to leverage hybrid and multicloud environments. The growing negative impact of egress charges has led to repatriation of data from public cloud back to on-premises environments and highlights the need for bidirectional migration.
Rising threats and uptime expectations have increased the need for resiliency for organizations. Beyond the implementation of new solutions to provide data protection for cloud-native workloads, organizations are also looking to implement site reliability engineering to improve automation within their environments and eliminate the communication gap between developers and infrastructure professionals.
Data migration is essential for establishing hybrid and multicloud environments, and it remains a major challenge for organizations. While the migration of data from on-premises datacenters to public cloud is typically the main topic for companies pursuing digital transformation, the study data suggests that repatriation operations, which bring data back to on-premises and colocated environments, are becoming more common.
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